Monday, August 10, 2009

Nahiiiiiii.... kahe do ki ye jooth hai...

Here is a forwarded email I had received and I can’t hold temptation to share it with you! I don’t know who wrote this email and hence I can’t publish name of the author. However I want to thank “Mr. Anonymous“ for writing this wonderful piece!

If you are in IT, you will relate with this so instantly!

I have reproduced this email as it is (except changing from “u” to “you” and removing company name mentioned in the original email).

Enjoy!

After lots of meet ups with my non-IT friends, relatives, strangers, rickshaw wallahs, etc etc, I noticed that the moment you say that you are an IT guy, they havealready made some assumptions about you.

Myth #1 :If you are not in the four biggies ...you are a loserAuntyji :"Beta, kaunsa tent?"Me : "Persistent! Aunty I work in Persistent."Aunty :"Tumko Info*** mein nahi mila kya?" (in short: "tum second gradegadhe lagte ho")

Then I have to make efforts to tell them how I actually work for a muchbetter company. Phew!

Aaaha! That’s the problem. People think that only the smarty pants aresenton site while the loser ones are the people left behind in India. So theassumption is that if you haven't been on site then you don't work hardnoryou have any sincerity and… ok that's enough for now.

Myth #3: You can fix any computer…and calculator and may be clocks tooMostof the computer engineers around must have at least once gone to afriend'splace only to fix his /her comp. The task can be from installing asoftware(next..next.. finish) to fixing a computer which gives electric shockswhenits metal areas are touched.

Myth #4: You have lots of moneyOnce I met up with my friends from school..From various fields. I just mentioned that it is such a pain to go to office nowadays and said that Iwanted to buy a car.

Myth #5: Coding means sitting in front of the computerDuring my college days , my classmate had an encounter with a guy from mechanical dept:

Mech guy: "Your Computer engineering is a big nautanki.... four years, you learn the same grey dabba... and all you ppl do is sit nicely in front of that dabba and punch the keys"

Well I don’t completely disagree

Myth #6: One more thing which oldies say: “Now you work in such a big company, you are settled, you should marry now!! “ OMG this salary is not enough for one poor soul, how to handle two???

Myth #7: In Diwali…you get questions like……”Are you going to get a bonus this Diwali…..??” And when we reply in the negative…..they seem so surprised…!!!!!!!

Myth #8: A common issue that I have seen:

When I tell anybody that I work with XYZ Company, many times I get a reply “My son/daughter/relative Mr/Ms XXX also works with XYZ. You must be knowing him/her” and if I answer in negative, they feel disappointed (sometimes even angry with me).

How to explain to them that there are around 1,00,000 employees in my company! Phew!

P.S.: So true! Being in IT, I can relate with most of these scenarios!

@Swetha : LOL! Very true! Now as I have shifted to "program manager" role, it's tough for me to answer which technology I am working on. And if you happen to be one of those who are not dealing with technology, phew... you get a look as if you are a useless creature..LOL.

So I can very well understand how it must be for marketing and HR folks!

LOL! Very true yaar! Even my dad expects me fixing things and at the end get the comment "pada likha gavaya!!!" and even today met a person on my way to office and as soon as i told him that i work in IT company was encountered with the similar questions.

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